My stash just grew again (2016)

[Weaver]

From the Coventry Show:

Airfix 1/72nd Ford Tri-Motor from Mike McEvoy  (gunship... )
Heller 1/72nd AMX-13 light tank
Heller 1/72nd Heinkel He 112
Monogram FTB scale B-58 Hustler*
2 x S&M Models 1/144th Vickers Viscount 800*

*these three for an extremely reasonable price from S&M themselves 

Profile Publications:
No.230 Dassault Mirage Variants
No.34 Scorpion Tank

[Martin H]

My intake from the Coventry show.
all 72nd scale

Combat resins CASA C212 srs200.
S & M resins Vickers Viking.
Allycat Douglas C 47TP(south African) conversion
Trumpeter N A F-107A Ultra Sabre (from Mike McEvoy)
Italeri F/A-18E Super Hornet. (from Weaver)

Also picked up from Howard of Effingham an Airfix Kamov Ka 27B for onward shipment to Thorvic.

[Leading Observer]

Arrived yesterday from ebay, Airfix Alpha Jet - is there stilltime to build it for the current GB

[Dizzyfugu]

Directly from Japan: an early 1:6 Asuka Soryu Langley anime character kit (from Neon Genesis Evangelion, as far as I can tell a figure based on early character designs). Not certain if it is a recast, as it comes without a box, but judging the kit's resin color it could be an original. It was reasonably prices, anyway, and is a good basis for a conversion into a fictional character.

[Gondor]

Received a couple of items from ebay

1 x 1/72 Academy Hawker Typhoon

1 x 1/144 Roden Vickers Super VC-10 K3 (type 1164 tanker)

I also received a few items I had ordered from Shapeways

12 x 1/600 HS Buccaneers

12 x 1/600 Wessex HAS 3

4 x 1/600 Westland Sea King AEW.2

8 x 1/600 F-4J's (7 with folded wings and one with wing tips extended) All to be converted to F-4K with RWR fin tip

4 x 1/600 Gannets (2 x ASW/COD versions + 2 x AEW3, one of each type with open wings and one of each with folded wings)

1 x 1/600 County Class Destroyer upgrade set

Gondor

[McColm]

Won on eBay;
1/72 Revell Beriev Be-6 Madge
1/72 Academy C-119 Flying Boxcar

[NARSES2]

From Coventry. Art Model Bearcat. Opinion would seem to indicate this is the Sword tooling, resin looks like it anyway. To be FAA but in EDSG over Sky to go with my overall blue BPF one

[PR19_Kit]

For the first time in ages I bought a new model kit! 

While at the Coventry Show I was persuaded to get an Airfix Swift FR5 together with the book on the same aircraft by Valiant Publications at a special deal price.

Needless to say I have a cunning plan for it, but that may take some years to come to fruition at my present rate of building.....

[McColm]

Isn't the Roden VC 10 in 1/144 scale not 1/72? 

[Gondor]

Isn't the Roden VC 10 in 1/144 scale not 1/72? 

Opps 

A little while later

Sorted 

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

That Roden Super VC10 looks really good, our own Howard of Effingham bought THREE of them at Coventry. He had one each of the K3 tanker, BOAC and East African versions, and they all looked great.

[Old Wombat]

Only just ordered from BNA Models in Melbourne but they should arrive soon;

1 x    1/48 Modern US Air Force AIM-9L/M/X "Sidewinder" (VA480601) - Voyager
1 x    1/48 Curtiss P-40M Warhawk Paint Mask for HobbyBoss kit (ED EX358) - Eduard
1 x    1/48 Gloster Gladiator [Limited Edition] (ED 1145) - Eduard
1 x    1/48 Gloster Sea Gladiator Paint Mask for Roden kit (Canopy Masks + Insignia Masks) (MON-MM48190) - Montex
1 x    1/48 Saab JAS-39 A/C Gripen (KH80117) - Kitty Hawk
1 x    1/35 Commonwealth Armoured Corps Helmets WWII (with liners) (UL AC35006) - Ultracast
1 x    1/48 Decals - CAC 'Speedbird' Logo (RRD4824) - Red Roo
1 x    1/48 RAF Roundels Type C Paint Mask (MON-MM48373) - Montex

Hmm, looks like I'm working towards some regular aircraft builds in the future!

[The Wooksta!]

Finally... after enduring an half hour wait in the rain and then another ten minute wait for a Metro, which was full to bursting due to delays thus making it slightly less comfortable than an unopened sardine tin, and then a walk round a cold, wet and rainy Gateshead town centre - even more of a dump after development than it was before (it did have some character...) - I got to Home Bargains.  There, awaiting me like a clump of daisies amongst a field of nettles, were the much sought after bargain Airfix kits - 72nd Dauntless, Spitfire PRXIX and F22. 

The Spitfires reside there no longer, but have been rescued and now await my cruel attentions - one 19 will become a 21 after some Frankensteinish experiment with the F22 wing, another may end up in Argentinian colours.  We shall see.

In total, I nabbed ten - 6 PR19s and 4 F22s.

And there are another 3 stores within range...

[Martin H]

And there are another 3 stores within range...

Kinda reminds me of a certain urban legend, ref two gents with tyneside accents strip mining every model shop up and down the east coast main line of Airfix TSR-2's............................................

[The Wooksta!]

Yes, that's the one.  Well, all myths have a kernel of truth in them somewhere, the truth bit of that one is me and Gary on a day trip to York and buying a few up.  He did the rest on his own, what with him having free rail travel at the time.

The next episode of the Home Bargains saga could well be tomorrow...